From: Resident HV
Sent: 03 February 2016 09:44
To: Kevin Burrell
Subject: RE: Noise from UK Docks yard River Drive [NOT PROTECTIVELY MARKED]
Mr Burrell.
The diary sheets were inappropriate to the timings of UK Docks Christmas ‘knocking off’ periods! As with everything connected with our complaints no one appears to want to apply common sense in dealing with our issues.
As you can appreciate, this is an emotive set of issues and I apologise for moments when the emotions involved may get in the way of the more than robust facts.
We/I believe that UK Docks may get ‘wind’ of potential visits? As suggested a more covert and 24/7 approach to monitoring the site activity and noise and polution assessment would seem to be a better option?
As you are probably more than aware, we were bitterly disappointed with the planning committees decisions. However, none of the residents are about to let our concerns and experience of the yards’ less than appropriate position to established residences go.
We all hope that the environmental dept will ensure that our rights as residents are applied at the same level (which appears to be quite high in the councils esteem!) as UK Docks’ ‘established sites’ rights?
The councillors are supposed to represent their constituents; you are expected to apply the law in a just and equitable manner as local government employees. As a Civil Servant myself, I am more than aware of my duty to uphold the public servant codes of conduct…
Yours respectfully
(It has been unusually quiet in the yard this morning. Were they made aware you would be visiting?).
Why is this Restricted?
From: Kevin Burrell
Date:04/02/2016 10:24 (GMT+00:00)
To: Resident HV
Subject:
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Mrs …….
I visited the Company yesterday morning (Wednesday 3 Feb), and raised the issues you had complained about, namely :
“sudden and reverberating loud bangs of what sounds like metal being dropped; constant grinding of metal; loud hammering; and rumbling of a forklift truck shifting stuff around the open yard”.
The company advised that they had been in the process of fabricating a steel frame, and following your complaint would relocate the rest of that activity to a lower part of the site to make use of the shielding effect of the land form near to the river. The equipment being used was not unusual for the purposes and it is not particularly easy to mitigate the generation of noise associated with the work required. The use of the fork lift truck on this site is to be expected but we will check the efficiency of the exhaust silencer. There was some angle grinding taking place in the work shed but this was not significant.
Regards
Kevin Burrell